You stated that two police officers visited Jeremy and questioned him about the sound moderator prior to its alleged discovery. Can you post documentary evidence that this occurred? As the location of the sound moderator when Jeremy left the farmhouse prior to the killings wouldn't determine where it was when the killings occurred, why do you think the police asked him about the sound moderator? What significant difference could Jeremy's answers have made to the investigation? As Jeremy would have known about this questioning, why didn't the defence ask at Jeremy's trial why it had occurred when it did?
The 2002 appeal document states "Using a radio link PC West contacted Malcolm Bonnet at the Chelmsford H/Q Information Room." Did PC West make any statement to this effect? If he provided any statement or evidence (other than his contemporary log), can you post it here?
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Yes, DS "Stan" Jones, and DCI "Taff" Jones, went to visit Jeremy at his cottage at 9 Head street, Goldhanger, on 9th August 1985. I believe it was the afternoon of Friday the 9th when they went to see him, before the keys to whf were handed back over to Ann Eaton. The reason why the police went to see Jeremy on that occasion, is understood to have been part of an exercise introduced by DCI Jones, to try and alleviate DS "Stan" Jones, concern, that he did not think Sheila had killed herself. By this stage, on 9th August 1985, DS Jones, had already seized four exhibits from the scene, bearing the identifying marks, SBJ/4, SBJ/3, SBJ/2 and SBJ/1...
SBJ/1 being the silencer that was subsequently sent to the Lab' on 13th August 1985...
The fact that DS Jones had seized exhibits, SBJ/4, SBJ/3, SBJ/2 and SBJ/1, from the scene on 7th August 1985, was recorded in the original Property Book, which formed part of the original file, SC/688/85, but which is absent in the re-written property book, that is associated with the new file, SC/786/85...
I think the police had some idea that the silencer could have been used on one of the guns in the shootings, i.e. on the other .22 n]bolt action rifle that was normally kept in the downstairs toilet at the scene, or upon the .22 air rifle that was normally kept on the spiral stairs that led from the kitchen to the upstairs landing. I am convinced that the silencer in question was not the Bamber silencer, at all, but that rather it was the other silencer, which belonged to the Pargeter rifle that was normally kept in a gun cabinet in the downstairs toilet. I think DS Jones took possession of the silencer from the region of the toilet, and that some blood may have been noticeable upon it, or within the small aperture on its end cap...
When they visited Jeremy on that say, they asked him if a silencer was fitted to the gun which he loaded with additional bullets on the evening prior to the shootings, and Jeremy told them "No"...
I suspect that the police were trying to find out id the silencer (SBJ/1) which DS Jones took possession of at the scene on 7th August 1985, had been transferred from the Bamber rifle, to this other weapon, in the interim period, or removed and taken off the Bamber rifle altogether?
By the end of their meeting with Jeremy, DCI Jones turned to DS Jones, and asked him if he was satisfied now that they had spoken to Jeremy about the silencer? DCI Jones may not actually have asked DS Jones if he was satisfied, rather than he told him that that should settle any suspicions he had about Jeremy being the killer and the use of the silencer in the shootings...
I don't actually think DS Jones curiosity was quenched, as a result of that meeting, because he later became embroiled in the silencer conspiracy involving members of the relatives, and other police officers, with a view to introducing the Bamber silencer having been found in the gun cupboard much earlier or sooner than it actually was (found on 11th September 1985, but listed as having been found on 10th August 1985)...
Some of the blood found inside the aperture of the (SBJ/1) silencer, later turned out to be animals blood (AK1)...
I believe that Jeremy did not think to raise these matters at the time of his trial, because he must have thought that the silencer DCI Jones, and DS Jones, had been referring to on 9th August 1985, was Pargeters silencer, that was present in the downstairs toilet, Jeremy had told the police on 9th August 1985, that there was no silencer fitted to the gun, and had obviously learned by the time of his trial that David Boutflour and the relatives were claiming that the Bamber silencer had not been discovered in the gun cupboard in the downstairs office, until 10th August 1985, and so Jeremy must have reasoned in his own mind that the silencer that DCI Jones, and DS Jones, talked to him about on 9th August 1985, was the other silencer, which seemed not to play any role in his case, or prosecution...
He must not have suspected that one or other silencer, had been merged into one and the same silencer, by the time his case came to trial, nor did he suspect or realize the significance of the visit which was paid to him, by DCI Jones, and DS Jones, on 9th August 1985. If he had done, it would have opened up a can of worms that much sooner...
Since, how could the police be questioning Jeremy about a silencer being on the guns barrel on the evening of 6th August 1985, on 9th August 1985, if the police had not seen or had possession of a silencer at the scene, by that stage (9th August 1985)?
The discrepancies relating to thee silencers did not actually come to light until after 1990, when I started to look into features of Jeremy's case, and after a very long process of obtaining more and more information, it was possible to reconstruct what had taken place involving all these different silencers, SBJ/1, DB/1 and DRB/1...
If Jeremy and his legal team had been aware of what we now know, he would never have got convicted of these murders, because as it turns out, the Bamber silencer was not found inside the gun cupboard until 11th September 1985, and not sent to the lab' until 26th September 1985 - much too late for it to have been the same silencer inside which was found the crucial blood group activity, A, EAP BA, AK1 and HP 2-1...
Blood with the same blood groups as Sheila, and paint from the aga, was found inside and upon the wrong silencer (DB/1), at a time when the Bamber silencer (DRB/1) had not even been submitted to the lab' to be examined, and would not be submitted to the lab' until 26th September 1985...
